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Install BibleWorks 9 in Ubuntu Linux with Wine

I'm not sure this is the correct forum for this, but I thought it might be helpful to document how I got BibleWorks 9 running reliably in Ubuntu Linux using Wine. Rather than putting a long post up here, I have a blog entry that may be useful:

I'm not sure this is the correct forum for this, but I thought it might be helpful to document how I got BibleWorks 9 running reliably in Ubuntu Linux using Wine. Rather than putting a long post up here, I have a blog entry that may be useful:

it should work fine. I am running exactly the same setup (Ubuntu Saucy 64bit) without the need for IE7 32bit, thanks to the wonders of gecko! Also, mono takes care of the .net portion of some Windows Applications. Beware, WINE 1.7 is the Beta release, but I currently have BW9 running flawlessly using Wine 1.7.16, and am loving it so far.

Although I am now noticing that the Copy to Clipboad function does not work and the Editor is also non-functional.

Yeah. You may also notice that there are no tooltips. While .NET is supported by mono, it is not .NET, therefore some of the functions are not perfect. It is unfortunate, but one of the many quirks of WINE. Not everything works as well as it does natively.

To be honest, I have abandoned BW9 in WINE, but only because I have recently aquired Lightroom to pursue my photography more professionally. I now run BW9 inside of a VirtualBox, which believe it or not, Windows, LR5 and BW9 all run better in a sandbox. I can give Windows the min. RAM required for LR (4GB), multitask with BW9, and it runs comparatively to when I was running Windows natively with double the RAM on the same machine. Strange, but true.